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Is It Really an Eating "Disorder"?
I am 15. I am a sophomore in High School. I have great friends, great family, and a very fun-filled life. But, there is something that No One knows about ...
The Fat New Girl
I've always been 'thick,' and I like it that way. I've never ever been skinny or near skinny, so why do I have this sudden urge to be skinny? I guess you ...
It's MY choice.
I have a purging disorder. And I have had it for seven years. However, I do not binge eat. Every morsel of food that enters my body is reintroduced to ...
I'm fine, I have it under control.
...At least it started that way.
When I was in the 7th grade, I was forced to switch schools by my physically, mentally and sexually abusive step-father....
My story.
[NOTE: PLEASE DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU ARE EASILY AFFECTED BY POSTS.I have no idea what triggers people and what doesn't as I went through my anorexia alone....
Surviving
I have never thought that I would have an eating disorder. Actually every time I heard about eating disorders, I would laugh and say that would never be ...
No, I eat. I can't have an eating disorder
I've been struggling with eating disorders since eleventh grade. I'm eighteen and a freshman in college. I've never been to a doctor about it.
I have ...
Angel Just-Rights: Original Fiction, based on a True Story of Anorexia
As Eating Disorders Awareness Week looms closer, IT IS TIME TO TALK ABOUT IT, please read new book promoting awareness. Particularly aimed at those suffering ...
Eating Disorder Awareness
For the past 17 years I have spent most of my life in and out of inpatient eating disorder treatment centers and hospitals. I am now thirty years old ...
My Struggle with Anorexia
My negative body image began when I was in 7th grade, in middle school. I was always relatively small because I'm quite short. Before I hit puberty I weighed ...
Shhhh it's a secret
When I was 9, my parents got divorced. When I was 12, my moms life partner moved and I found out she was gay. When I was 14, my dad married this horrid ...
Dying to be accepted
I was only 10 years old when my eating disorder began to take form. My older sisters started poking fun at me for being fat. They even called me names ...
the highschool starve and binge
I'm currently 16 years old. I've always noticed I'm the bigger one out of my friends (weighing about 125 lbs at 5'2").
I never used to count calories ...
From Childhood Bulimia to Teenage Bulimia to Adult Bulimia... This is My Recovery Story
Hi, my name is Shaye. I used to be bulimic. This is my story...
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Living in the Darkness
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Wind ...
Helping Others Recover From an Eating Disorder
I’m overweight and out of shape, and I do try and lose weight for the obvious health risks and medical complications , however one thing I’m happy about ...
Purging Anorexic
Around the age of 14, I was diagnosed with Bulimia Nervosa . During this period of my life, everything was normal aside from my eating disorder.
I ...
College Athlete
My eating disorder started when I went to college. I received an athletic scholarship to a division one school. My grades had always been good when I was ...
Battling Social Body Image
I have been fat all my life. By the time I was in fourth grade I weighed 165 lbs. I was never really teased about my weight, but the older I got the ...
My Eating Disorder Troubled Me
My eating issues started when I was dancing in high school. I went through a phase of very restrictive, constant dieting, and as I got more and more fed ...
A bedtime story
My girlfriend has anorexia and I am never sure how to deal with this. She told me once that part of the disorder is that she will hide it from me. So ...
Too Fat to Be Bulimic
I used to have bulimia nervosa . Well I guess a part of me still is bulimic.
I was 16 when I decided that I wanted to throw up after every meal. I ...
A PERSON WITH ALL THREE DISORDERS!
Until I was about ten years old, in 1948, my eating habits were "normal". I disliked vegetables, though, so to make me eat them, my mother hid a piece ...
My Wake up Call - swimsuit shopping & body image
My body image has never been great. I have always struggled with the compulsory 15-20 lbs. It all came to light when I was in the 9th grade.
It was ...
Teenager Eating Disorder
When I was a teenager I had an eating disorder for some time.
It started with me and my friend trying to lose weight together in school (even though ...
Thanksgiving Day
My eating disorder started at an average age as eating disorders go, early high school. I was very late to lose my baby fat, so as I entered high school ...
College days
It all started as a diet during my junior year in college...and then turned into an obsession with fat and calories and a refusal to eat anything with ...
Chocolate Temptation
Chocolate Temptation For the Love of Chocolate
My story is about my niece. She has (had?) a love of chocolate that she could not satisfy. She ...
No cure, huh?
It was all so innocent when it began. I had always been body-conscious, although never very overweight, but for some reason I didn’t want to get fat. Somehow ...
Obsessed with Being Perfect
I was obsessed with being perfect. My eating disorder began when I started college as a modern dance major. Prior to college I did not worry about my ...
Eating Disorder to Restoring Health
I would like to tell you about my own eating disorder story, what I went through and how painful my life had become. And then I would also like to tell ...
Curing an ED
I have battled eating disorders in college. Or when I was fat. But the truth is, Eating Disorders won't make you skinny or look fabulous. It makes you ...
concerned
This parent is concerned about her child going off to college while dealing with anorexia. Getting eating disorder help in college depends most on how ...
eating disorder and doing fertility treatments
I'm 39 years old and married for the second time. My husband and I don't have children together, but we have 6 between us both. We have started fertility ...
Overcoming Anorexia: A Personal Account
If thin is good, thinner is better. Or so I thought.
It has been many years now since I exhibited anorexic traits, and I feel that I have nearly if ...
A Hamster Wheel and the Brick Wall
I am a 39 year-old mother of 3 who is recovering from anorexia. I have been at a healthy weight for one year now. But, I still have ED thoughts and some ...
Eating Disorders During Pregnancy - A story of Hope from Grandmom
This is a story about how my daughter survived eating disorders during pregnancy. It wasn't easy, but I do believe it made her stronger. But first, some ...
My Eating Disorder Story
My name is Kim Ratcliffe, I am 48 years old, married (2nd marriage) to a wonderful man who loves "me" for me & not my body size! I have 3 children 21, 18,...
Goodbye Anorexia
Dear Anorexia,
I have come a long way since the first day we met. I don't need you nearly as much as I did before, and that's a good thing. For so long ...
"Addicted to the Flavor of Food"
If you are a scientist that goes by what the scientific publications tell you to, or you have ever done a search to see how to treat your “addiction to ...
How to end the cycle?
Oh, I'm so glad I found this public blog! I don't feel comfortable talking about my "poor eating habits" with anyone else. But here, I get to write away....
I eat so I don't have an eating disorder
I watch what I eat. I used to be on the heavy side, over 200lbs and I lost 80lbs, not initially. It just came off due to stress.
I am constantly ...
Irregular life AND Eatting disorder
I'm here to share my experience about my irregular life - habits which I think may have lead to an eating disorder.
I'm Jithin, a 20-year-old college ...
Bulimia & Anorexia Story
Hi my name is Diana Wenceslao. I was not concerned about my weight until I was about to start my freshmen year in high school. I was always on a diet, but ...
my story
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I don't really know where to start. I don't really know why I'm doing this. Maybe I'm hoping this will prevent me from relapsing. The truth is I've never ...
Binge/ Overeating disorder and Anorexia
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Once upon a time there was a girl in the mirror. Fat but happy. Obese. That girl was me.
My constant binging and overeating started when I was about ...
confused.
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this past summer, i passed out due to not eating and exercising. i was able to talk my parents and family into thinking it was just not eating breakfast ...
The Roller Coaster Ride
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I am 16 and I love life. Not too long ago, I was the cute, energetic blonde that everyone talked about. I had great friends and a great life. I played ...
The developing struggle
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I found myself on tumblr, reblogging . Looking at pictures of girls far prettier and thinner than I am. I didn't expect this. I had barely known much about ...
Just cry
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I really don't know if what I have is an eating disorder. For years since I was like 10, I haven't been comfortable with my weight. I'm 16 now. Sometimes ...
Perfect, Laughing
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For me, everything started falling apart when I went to University and was living on my own for the first time.
I knew that I was at a healthy, normal ...
Sisterly love
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I have a beautiful sister who always wants to look her best. I've always been skinny which is ok. I wish I was a little heavier just because I'm more fragile,...
Trying to be Anorexic
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My name is Kaylee Johnson, and I am an anorexia survivor. I had always been a slim girl, 5 feet 11 inches and 140 pounds. Everybody would always tell me ...
life of gloom
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I spent years at school being bullied for being more overweight than most people. I started to become obsessed with weight loss around the age of 12. People ...
am i fat!!
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I just had started 7th grade. I felt like I was so fat that no one would like me. So I started to not eat. First I wasn't eating breakfast. Then I stopped ...
Do I have an eating disorder?
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It all started after I had my first child at 18. I was around 147 lbs before i fell pregnant & just after giving birth, I had gone up to 203lbs. At my ...
My fight with an eating disorder
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It had all started when I was about 7 years old when I started to be obsessed about my weight, thinking I'm fat and comparing myself to other girls and ...
Overcoming Bulimia
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I used to have an eating disorder. It started off as anorexia when I was about 16 years old. I'd skip breakfast, have some dry crackers at school so as ...
Puberty ruined my Life.
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In elementary school, I had it all. ESPECIALLY in the 5th grade - that year had a huge impact on my life. My friends were amazing and I was considered ...
Not your typical eating disorder sufferer...
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I have always had a great life, great parents and great friends. I have always been "perfect" in people's eyes. I had A's and B's through out elementary ...
Self Realization
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I was always small. 4'11", small frame, fast metabolism. The pressure to be perfect two years ago in sixth grade was tempting me to be the best I could ...
In control of me
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I have always been a skinny girl until suddenly at the age of 12, I became fat and chubby. I ate whatever came my way and didn't care until I turned 16....
When There's Nothing Left to Hold Onto
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I've always been that skinny girl. I've always been told my body was perfect. Maybe once upon a time it was a body that deserved to be loved, but I can ...
I didn't realize it
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I was a freshman in high school when I realized I wanted to start a healthier diet. I'm in gymnastics so there was already a lot of pressure to stay small,...
A long time
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My eating disorder began when I was 15. My dad passed away and after that I didn't feel the need to eat. I didn't know what was going on at the time.
I ...
Lost
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I have been living with bulimia for a little over 5 years now. I was always chubby as a child...and constantly picked on because of it. I never took it ...
A problem shared...
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Hello, I'm a 16 year old student who is currently suffering from Anorexia with a binge purge sub type.
It all started last year when my boyfriend and ...
tired
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Its 1:09 pm and I feel horrible, but at the same time I feel great. I haven't eaten today - only some coffee and a bit of milk. My dad forced me to eat ...
Unsure..
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I think I may have an eating disorder, but I'm really not sure at all. For the past few moths I have been purging on a daily basis, to the point were I ...
The Magnificent Reward
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Over the weekend I had the amazing opportunity to hike 20 km over a volcano... It was on the Tongariro Alpine Crossing in New Zealand.
This wasn't your ...
Anorexia nearly killed me
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When i was 18 years old i had anerexia. I never used to eat because I was afraid that someone would make fun of me because I was fat.
Every time I ...
It struggled me a lot.
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I did not have any problems with eating until I was studying in school. After joining college, I started changing my food habits. I developed the habit ...
A Schoolgirl's Story
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Two years ago, I was diagnosed with anorexia in a women’s health clinic on the outskirts of Norfolk, Virginia. My father was (and still is) a Marine ...
Help! My daughter has an awful body image.
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My daughter is 12 and constantly complains how fat she is. She is not fat. She isn't as bony as some girls, she's tall and curvy, but she definitely is ...
Prader-Willi Syndrome
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I am from Chennai, India and I have recently moved to my home town, Edamuttam in Trissur Kerala. My wife and I invited my uncle's family to our home for ...
Bulimic Girlfriend
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I had a girlfriend many years ago that was a very attractive girl. She had a great personality and we had a lot of fun together. She was very thin and ...
The Battle
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Beauty
Do you know what it feels like to look in the mirror and cry and look away?
To want to cover the mirror up with a cloth, so you can break ...
Wasted Away...
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This story may reflect many others of the same condition. It all started a few years ago while some friends and I attended our local high school. We used ...
I always see myself the same
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I'm 26 now and I still remember the first time someone weighed me in middle school. I was 4'11 and 140 pounds, but had no idea if that was too much or ...
Work life balance
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When I was 15 years old I started working at a local fitness center. I was a pretty average guy in every way possible. I wasn't fat, but I was definitely ...
Finding Myself
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It all started when I was 11. I stopped eating and I started purging. This cycle happened for the next 11 years; sometimes I was 'better' other times ...
How Bulimia Nearly Killed Me
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This is how bulimia nervosa nearly killed me.
It began when I started dating a lad when I was 20. I told him a few things that happened when I was ...
Downs and Ups
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I've never been a girly girl. In so many ways - clothes, make-up, gossip, boy craziness...and perhaps truest of all, in my eating habits. Now I knew what ...
What to do? Please help?
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QUESTION:
I have a friend and she wears belts around her waist to look smaller. Could that hurt her inside parts? I don't know what to do, she says ...
Learning That Love Is Stronger Than Food
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This is how I healed my negative body image and learned to love myself for who I am, rather than define myself by what society wants my self image to be....
Inside my Bell Jar...
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It was kind of inexplicable how it started. I'm tending toward believing there's a genetic component to the causes of eating disorders because it was ...
Eating disorders affect men too! Bulimia for 12 yeras
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I am a bulimia survivor. I suffered with bulimia signs off and on for almost 12 years, and just recently I have finally gotten the strength to fully ...
My Eating Disorder Experience
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I'm not going to go into the full details of my eating disorder as I don't really want to talk about why I developed an eating disorder. I try to block ...
My Eating Disorder
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I was born in 1955 in San Francisco, California, and grew up in a family that most people would consider "normal" in most respects. But to me, it was a ...
3 Months Pregnant
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Ever since I was younger I've had issues with my body image. I was always too short, too wide, and had too much excess fat. Even though I was never called ...
I didn't want to eat
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I was in sixth grade. That’s when my eating disorder started. I just wanted to lose a little weight for high school. I started just eating less, trying ...
In Secret
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Ballet was the defining element in my life. Starting at age four I lived for ballet, and by the time I was 12, I was at the ballet studio almost every ...
Eating Disorder-Yes, and it lurks in the shadows
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Thank you Wendy for the volume of easily understood information on this serious topic.
I had an eating disorder and found it was deep rooted in not ...
Eat to Live and never live to Eat
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Eating everything like chocolates, ice cream, butter, chicken, beef, etc. was my hobby. When I had ice cream, I are as much as I like. Beef and mutton ...
My Struggle - Purging vs Lose Weight Naturally
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When I was a young child, I was both short and fat. Naturally, I was the butt of many cruel jokes. To make it worse, the television always showed pictures ...
Pressure to be Thin
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My story begins when I moved abroad to study at university (aka "uni"). I gained weight and hated the reactions of people to my weight gain. Everybody ...
EAT, EAT AND EAT
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Almost a year back, I had major symptoms of eating disorders . I always like eating something or the other. As soon as i used to get up from the bed, even ...
Me And My Body
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I have suffered from compulsive overeating since childhood. My weight was my greatest fear. I was always the fattest amongst all my friends.
I used ...
Weight Loss & Amenorrhea
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At first I really liked losing weight. Everyone noticed. I got to wear clothes I never could before. I lost my period. You don't have to deal with cramps ...
Eating Disorders, Perfectionism and Control
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I was always a good kid. I followed rules, didn't give my parents many problems. I was a good friend too. I would do anything for anyone. I was even pretty ...
The Eternal Eating Issue
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As a teenager, I always struggled with my self-image. People told me I was beautiful, but there was always someone thinner, someone with more friends, or ...
A Lucky Save
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One night I was awakened by a sound. I got out of bed and heard someone in the bathroom who sounded like they were throwing up. I opened the door and my ...
You can become a better person,
I did
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This is a story about self-esteem, or rather the lack of it. When I was five, I walked home from school with my cousin Debbie. Our grandmother met us at ...
Obesity and Pregnancy
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I am 27 years old and I have struggled with eating disorders ( compulsive overeating ) since I was 11.
In my early teens I struggled with obesity. It ...
overweight
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I was overweight for a while when I was younger. Then I leveled off and when I entered junior high, I started putting on weight again. In junior high, it'...
Finding balance between the extremes of denial and indulgence.
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I had this eating disorder for 3 years. The reason no one know about the anorexia is because I was like that in the summer of 97 (see anorexia symptoms ...
A HEART SAVED
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Manu my school friend who was a healthy young boy at 18, gained a significant amount of weight in thirties. He normally ate five to six times a day, and ...
Overeaters Anonymous
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My 28 year old fiance is an Overeater. What is an overeater you might ask. Honestly I had no idea there was a difference between someone who was just ...
When the world seems against your own body-acceptance...
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There are many days when I cannot accept my body, when I can't find self-esteem or self-love. I have been through years of struggles with loving myself ...
How I Learned That Food Cannot Control Me
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Growing up, I was always a bigger-boned child, and I was often teased because of it. Having said that, it was partially, if not entirely, my fault. I loved ...
My eating habits changed once my job changed
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I am Sasikrishna from India. When I was a delivery man for an international courier service, really I was a healthy man! Really. My working nature was ...
What's Eating You?
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It's hard to remember when it began, the obsession with food, the inability to feel satisfied no matter how much I ate. Everyone in my family seemed preoccupied ...
What we see in the mirror isn't always what others see!
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I have always been self-conscious about my body. I didn't have the slim body many girls had as teens. I was athletic and had muscles (inherited from my ...
My Daily Diet
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My diet is very perfect for me. I eat regularly and on a particular time. I wake up in the morning and have a brush and bath. After that I pray to god ...
